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...teaching partners for nine months to plan out their course. Backstage planning seems to correspond to more shared time in the lecture hall.Harvard College Professor and Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser, who team-taught Science B-29, “Evolution of Human Nature,” attended all lectures taught by Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham.“Over time it got more fine-tuned and the lectures overlapped nicely,” Hauser says. The non-lecturing Life Sciences 1a faculty dispersed throughout the lecture hall while their colleague was speaking. Hartl...
When Linda J. Greenhouse ’68 became the first female reporter sent to the Albany bureau by The New York Times, she was “quite shocked” to find that women could not attend the main social event on the calendar—a show in which correspondents from predominantly male newspapers dressed in drag and performed parodies about state politics.“I protested, and it was quickly changed, but I still refused to be in the silly show,” writes Greenhouse, Harvard Law School’s 2006 Class...
...though we would never be informed of campus’ most important (and, alas, unimportant) debates. Procrastination would become more creative, and we would certainly be ignorant of the uncouthly candor that is brought about by impersonal conversation. Without class e-mail lists, we would actually have to attend lecture to find out when our next assignment was due. Consulting teaching fellows about a troublesome paper would require face-to-face interaction in office hours, rather than the mundane chore of firing off an e-mail. Perhaps even classes would be fairer as compiling 40-page study guides that offer...
...does not have the faith of the middle class. He points out that of the three white city councillors with school-age children—Brian P. Murphy ’86 and Michael A. Sullivan are the other two—he is the only one whose children attend the Cambridge Public Schools...
...kids to the public schools, he takes care to mention their race because he believes that school choices are contributing to racial division. De facto segregation between public and private education, he fears, will result in a system like Boston’s, where the majority of students who attend the public schools are minorities and where whites opt for private education. And this fear is being borne out, he says, by falling enrollment. The Cambridge system has shrunk by more than 1,000 students over the past three years, and the city’s schools have registered...